Stroll was ruled out of this week’s three-day test after a cycling incident left him with what team boss Mike Krack has now revealed is a wrist injury.The team still doesn’t know if Stroll will definitely be fit enough to take part in the Bahrain Grand Prix next weekend.Reigning Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich took over the car for Thursday morning’s session, although his running was …Keep reading
Verstappen, the only driver to run for the full day as all other F1 teams split their programmes, put in a 1m32.837s midway through the afternoon to improve on his effort that led the morning session.It looked nailed on to give Red Bull top spot until a number of teams started to focus on performance runs on the softer compound tyres.Alonso, on fresh C3 tyres, duly leapt to 0.029 seconds …Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad was handed a $7 million fine and a 10% reduction in its aero development allowance as the result of being found to have overspent on its way to the 2021 world championship.While the financial penalty will not produce too much pain, the reduction in its wind tunnel and CFD allowance means it will have significantly less development time than some of its closest …Keep reading
Stella says the team will try not to focus initially on direct comparisons with Lando Norris, who is heading into his fifth year of F1.Instead the team will concentrate on ensuring Piastri is as prepared as possible for the challenge of his first season at the top level.“Let’s say the way we set this topic up internally is not much in relation to Lando when it comes to Oscar, but it’s in …Keep reading
What is Drive to Survive?Drive to Survive is a Netflix docu series produced by Box to Box Films, giving fans unprecedented access into the colourful world of Formula 1. Each race weekend the series’ crew follows a different team, zooming in on the season’s biggest talking points and controversies while also showing a more human side of the 20 drivers, 10 team bosses and other key …Keep reading
Despite many decades of involvement in F1, Newey remains at the top of his game and most recently helped Red Bull’s title successes last season.Aston Martin’s new technical director Dan Fallows worked alongside Newey for many years at Red Bull, and says it was an eye-opening experience for him understanding how he operated.Fallows reckons it was Newey’s mindset in not believing that …Keep reading
Although the tyre compounds remaining unchanged from 2022 – other than the addition of a new C1, with the previous tyre of that specification becoming a new C0 to close the performance gap between the harder rubber types and those typically used as mediums – Pirelli has changed the construction of all its tyres.The main changes have been made to the front tyres to reduce the understeer …Keep reading
But once the finished cars had gone public, it was inevitable we would see teams hone-in on the agreed best ideas, even if it meant switching concept. The imposition of a cost cap limited how much change was possible during the 2022 campaign, though, with biggest revisions always likely to be made over the last winter. As F1’s 2023 cars have broken cover, it has been …Keep reading
The change of specification was formally approved at today’s meeting of the F1 Commission, which was held at the F1 organisation’s HQ in London.An F1/FIA statement said that “following successful testing by Pirelli, with the support of teams, Pirelli have arrived at a wet weather tyre which is much more performant than the previous specification – this tyre type does not require the use …Keep reading
Following the first year of the new generation of cars, it was widely accepted that at some venues DRS passes had been too easy, while at others the zones were too short.Having looked closely at the data of last season, the FIA has now revealed that tweaks will be made at the Bahrain, Jeddah, Melbourne, Baku and Miami circuits to better balance things out.Although there has been no …Keep reading